Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability > in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an applicati

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > > Have you looked at dar? > >   # yum info dar > > I've never used it, but it does do multi-volume "slices" of an archive. Interesting. I think it's way overkill for what we're trying to do. Apparently it will create split archives but leave

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Dale Dellutri
Have you looked at dar? # yum info dar I've never used it, but it does do multi-volume "slices" of an archive. -- Dale Dellutri -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage >> wrote: >> > I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: >> >> Great minds think alike. I di

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: > > I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: > > Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same > response. I've forwarded him

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same response. I've forwarded him my updates but I'll attach it here one more time. Some things I'v

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:31 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' > >> call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed D

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 13:53 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 21:24 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I want to be able to copy that directory with all its subordinate > > directories, files, ownerships, permissions, etc. onto a minimum > > number of DVDs. Ideally I'd want to pop all

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' >> call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery >> for me. I still have to figure something

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' > call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed DVD device discovery > for me. I still have to figure something else out though. When it > executed growisofs it crashed an

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: >> 'discspan', a Python script suggested by Richard Shaw, appears to fill >> the bill very nicely. Unfortunately it just crapped out after burning >> the first DVD-R on an RHEL5 s

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > 'discspan', a Python script suggested by Richard Shaw, appears to fill > the bill very nicely. Unfortunately it just crapped out after burning > the first DVD-R on an RHEL5 server actually hosting the .../Everything > directory. I'm a

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 21:24 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I want to be able to copy that directory with all its subordinate > directories, files, ownerships, permissions, etc. onto a minimum > number of DVDs. Ideally I'd want to pop all those discs into a DVD > drive on a new machine and u

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning ar

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability > in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an applicati

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability > in F13? Ide

Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an application that writes and reads directly to/f